Word: intelligentsia
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Wang said his purpose was to educate “the half-cooked college intelligentsia...
...understanding between our country and the world. No doubt this is true. Trouble is, bright young Americans are already on better terms with bright young Afghanis than they are with poor old Americans. We’re throwing our energy at cultural ambassadorship even as respect for the intelligentsia collapses throughout Middle America. Oughtn’t we consider some serious outreach efforts on our own territory...
...Iraqi refugees and lost talent Most of those who have the means or the ability to leave the country have left. By that I mean the entire intelligentsia of the country ? doctors, architects, engineers, businessmen, people with money or with university degrees that they can use or with family connections. You had an exodus of real capital because people have left with their life savings, all of which are now sitting in banks in Jordan and Syria. And you also have a drain of intellectual capital, which is a much bigger problem. The people who've left...
...well at a newspaper in, say, the U.S., where reporters are expected to see both sides. Here reporters are expected not so much to unearth news as to find information that corroborates what everyone in the newsroom already believes: the Kremlin is bad; the security apparatus is bad; the intelligentsia is good; the Westernizers and liberals are right...
...Within our intelligentsia in the black community, you have more gay men and women,” he said. “The black community cannot do without us. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the two elected mayors are black, gay, and lesbian...